INDEPTH: AFGHANISTAN
March 4, 2006: axe attack
CBC News Online | Updated March 10, 2006
Canada's casualties: 2006

A family photo of Capt. Trevor Greene, taken just before he left for Afghanistan.
During a meeting between Canadian soldiers and village elders in Gumbad, about 70 kilometres north of Kandahar, a man attacks one of the soldiers from behind with an axe.

Capt. Trevor Greene, a journalist and former navy officer from Vancouver, suffers a serious head wound. His attacker is shot dead by other Canadian soldiers. Greene is sent to a U.S. military hospital in Germany.

The Canadian military identifies Greene's assailant as a Taliban militant, but village leaders say the attacker was a teenager with no connection to the Taliban.

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